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Re: crash in latest release

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:30:43 +0200

On 09.10.2012 22:25, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>> On 09.10.2012 21:49, Stefan Küng wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just got the first crash report for the TSVN 1.7.10 release (svn 1.7.7).
>>> Considering that the release is only an hour old, that indicates that
>>> I will get a lot more of those...
>>>
>>> Problem in libsvn_subr/win32_crypto.c, function
>>> windows_password_decrypter(svn_boolean_t *done, ...):
>>>
>>> ...
>>> if (!done)
>>> return SVN_NO_ERROR;
>>>
>>>
>>> now here the check is for the pointer, not the actual bool value.
>>> And if it's set to false, the pointer check is still true and the code
>>> goes on instead of returning here.
>>>
>>> trunk and 1.7.x have the same bug, even though on trunk the code
>>> before the if() is slightly different.
>>>
>>> I think this needs to change to:
>>>
>>> if (!*done)
>>> return SVN_NO_ERROR;
>>
>> You're right. Fixed in r1396285 but I don't have a way to test it.
>>
>> I don't know why our test suite didn't catch this; it should trigger
>> every time an encrypted password is read from disk on Windows. But maybe
>> the testsuite doesn't even test that.
>
> I doubt that it can be triggered by simply reading an encrypted
> password from %APPDATA%\Subversion\auth\svn.simple, if that's what you
> mean. Otherwise I would have definitely run into the crash (if not
> during the testsuite, I would have seen it during my manual testing of
> serf checkouts/exports, on my work pc).

Not necessarily: in my debug builds, it doesn't crash. Only the release
builds crash because the strlen() there accesses an invalid pointer,
while in the debug build the char* gets a 'initialized' to a valid string.
depending on your build, the

char *in;

might point to some valid memory and therefore not crash (as it does in
my debug builds).

Stefan

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Received on 2012-10-09 22:31:19 CEST

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